Hi, I'm Helena.

Holistic Coach & Therapist

Do you ever feel like..

..you are different and noone really gets you? 

..you are too much or not enough for others? 

..you don’t really fit in, no matter what you do?

..you are too sensitive to actually be in the world? 

I can relate because I’ve been there.

I still meet those feelings from time to time – after all this is part of being human.

And.. these feelings don’t define who I am anymore. This is possible for you too.

Actually, I’m quite sure there is so much more waiting for you..

Let me tell you a bit about my story and why I do what I do today.

My struggle to belong

As someone that feels deeply and is really aware of what happens underneath the surface, I struggled to find my place growing up in Germany, in a system that is so focused on achievement and teaching people to think the same. 

I was the one that only went to parties to have deep conversations when people got drunk – and tried to ignore how overstimulated I felt by loud noises and big crowds.

My journey within

The breakup of my long term relationship made me realise how much I depended on men and studying “the right thing” to give me an identity and meaning.

This led me on a journey deep into my past trauma, questioning the very core of who I was and where I belonged. 

 

When I started my holistic psychotherapy training someone said that the next three years would feel like an open heart surgery – she was about right, my whole life was turned upside down. 

 

I moved houses every few months, tried to find stability in relationships (again) and tried to work through everything as fast as I could to make my pain go away – only to realise that I was trying to finally get to that place where I was sorted again.

Normal. Finally fitting in.

Well, I never found that place - but something even better.

What I did find was more of myself.

Young parts of me that I had locked away a long time ago that I then started to turn towards.

They did not only show me my pain and grief but also my strength and core stability.

As psychotherapist and soul activist Francis Weller put it,

“There is some strange intimacy between grief and aliveness, some sacred exchange between what seems unbearable and what is most exquisitely alive.”

I’m obsessed with:

creative writing, figuring out how trauma impacts our life and what makes us tick, travelling, chocolate, watching people at the airport

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My feel good places:

the stormy sea, cosy coffee shops, wide green fields, ceremonial spaces, Irish pubs with live music

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Daily rituals:

journaling, breathwork, drinking ceremonial cacao, yoga or the class, nervous system regulation exercises throughout the day

I also found safety and a deeper way of connection in community, mentors that taught me about the law of attraction and consciously creating my reality, and I reestablished a long-lost trust in life, which always knows so much better than me and can actually guide me when I open the door.

Because I moved through this, I know you can too.

I know it is possible to respond to the world from a core stability within yourself and in life. And that this will always be a part of your home, no matter where you are.
From there you can keep building the life where you actually belong. One step at a time. 

 

This is the journey I now support people on.

Drawing on my training as a holistic psychotherapist, different qualifications in coaching, alternative healing modalities and nervous system regulation, but most importantly the commitment to my own journey, that will always be ongoing – just like yours. 

Here is what I believe in:

Freedom

Your path is one that no one else has ever walked before. It’s time to create a life that honours your sensitive being and rediscover what it feels like when you’re the one at the wheel.

Safety

No, you don’t have to choose between freedom and safety. Your nervous system feeling safe is actually what allows you to take new steps. In our work together we make sure that you know how to find back into safety before we explore anything.

Aliveness

Reconnecting to what makes you feel alive is tied to the parts of you that feel too much / not enough and that you’re trying to hide. It’s these parts that you form a relationship with while recognising that your aliveness is so much bigger than you. It’s part of life which always leads you, when you relearn to trust it.

“With Helena you can experience something rare and valuable: complete acceptance of everything within yourself.

You can show up with all your problems, uncertainties, and stubborn patterns, and you are simply accepted and valued without any arrogance or know-it-all attitude.

And she teaches you to extend this acceptance to yourself as well.

Just that alone accomplishes so much.

You learn openness, to truly look at what is within you and how it guides you – and eventually, you experience the necessary shifts in perspective to be kinder and fairer to yourself, and consequently, to others as well.”

– Riccarda

My official Qualifications:

  • Seven Directions Breathwork Facilitator, with Steph Magenta (2023-ongoing)
  • Anchored Trauma-informed Coach and Entrepreneur, with Claire Rother (2023)
  • A year of Polyvagal, with Deb Dana (2023)
  • 5 Gates of Grief, with Francis Weller (2022)
  • Reiki Level 1, with Romana Catto, Berlin (2022)
  • IFS (Internal Family System) Online Circle (2021)
  • Creative Business Coaching, with Clara Hahn, Berlin (2020-2021)
  • Psychosynthesis Foundations, London (2020)
  • BA Holistic Counseling and Psychotherapy, ICPPD, Galway, Ireland (2017-2020)

I’ve done many additional workshops and trainings in NVC (nonviolent communication), wheel of consent, authentic relating etc.

As my own journey is key to everything I do I’ve learned a lot through my different mentors and therapists, specialising in different areas like deep imagery, biodynamic psychotherapy, law of attraction, EFT, IFS, somatic experiencing etc.

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